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Chrome 44 Launches With Tweaks To Push Messaging and Notifications
An anonymous reader writes: Google has launched Chrome 44 for Windows, Mac, and Linux with new developer tools. Aside from a host of security fixes, this release focuses mainly on developer features. The API for push notifications was updated to match the specification, a new implementation of multi-column layout was added, and they've extended support for Unicode escapes in strings. The full changelog notes a number of performance improvements as well.
I find the lack of columns one of the more striking failures of CSS design. They don't appear to have consulted with anybody who actually knew anything about why things get laid on on a page the way they do. Line lengths are one of the more important factors in determining how easy it is to read something; the eye has a hard time tracking back on wide texts. Default layouts try to compensate with wide spacing, which just wastes a lot of space (and looks, at least to me, very unappealing).
I look forward to other browsers implementing this, so that web page designers (especially for responsible web pages) start using it instead of the hacks and design compromises they're currently forced into.
1. Define "fast", are we talking 3 second load time or something else
2. What Features you need vs what you want, why are you using that site
3. Hardware, are you using a 10 year old computer to use something feature rich like Facebook?
One solution is to write your own extension to block shit you don't want that's slowing your experience down.
The final thing I can think of is maybe its the browser you're using. I used to think my old (8 yrs old) computer had some kind of problem, I was running Chrome and it was just maddening, I switched to Firefox and discovered much to my surprise that Chrome itself just didn't run well, all of a sudden sites came back to life.
If you sit there waiting for devs to write better sites just for you, well, you'll be there a long time
I'll just wait two more weeks for Chrome 76.
Sometime in the last five releases it feels like the number of memory leaks in Chrome have just skyrocketed. Maybe I'm not the normal use case, but I typically leave Chrome and various tabs open for days or weeks at a time, and eventually causes Windows to panic and close Chrome to recover that memory. My wild-ass-guess is that it's related to HTML5 video but maybe it's something else. I freakin' love chrome, but the memory leaks are seriously making me consider something a little more stable.
Chrome is the only application I use that ever, ever has memory leaks now in 2015.
moox. for a new generation.
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Honestly, reading the thread ... you posted something, got modded down, whined about it, and then got told to stop whining about it, and now you're acting like some outraged fool.
Boo hoo, you got modded down on the intertubes. It's not some horrible tragedy, and your continuing to keep bitching about it makes you sound like a child.
Seriously, grow a pair and stop whining about how tragic it is you got moderated down and then told to stop whining about it.
Is that fucking clear enough? Or do you need a timeout so you can stop acting like a spoiled brat?
Because it's way too damned annoying to see people whining about the injustices of the moderation system, because it tells us you haven't got a clue that it's a bunch of random monkeys banging on keys.
Get over it already.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
... or it's actually not possible to implement Push Messaging and Notifications without every message going through Google's servers (or GCM, Google Cloud Messaging)? Somehow I don't see this "feature" being all that popular, considering tracking/snooping and Google's discontinuing its services willy-nilly. And it looks like you have to actually pay Google if you want to send more than 10,000 notifications per day.
Geez, another release? Why do they insist on revving the release numbers so often? Mozilla really jumped the shark when they made Chrome match the ridiculous version numbering scheme of Google's Firefox browser.
Every flipping couple of weeks, Mozilla comes out with another version of Chrome with a list of "improvements" that no one wants while ignoring the obvious memory bloat and CPU utilization problems caused by their stupid multiprocess tab browsing. I remember when Mozilla Chrome was a sleek, fast browser - now it's a bloated mess. And when are they ever going to have the rich Add-Ons ecosystem that Google has had for-freaking-ever?
I swear to God I'm going to switch to Google Firefox if this crap keeps up.
...support for Java. No Webmin. Piss off.
I'm not a professional web designer, but I've taken a few jobs doing it.
They do it because that's what their customers want.
Most of the people wanting websites (and willing to pay for them) aren't tech savvy. They're business people, often small business people. And to them, all that flashy Javascript and animations look "professional."
I once designed a website for a dialup ISP. The default page template I made for them had one small graphic - their logo. Everything else was standard HTML and CSS 1. It was well organized, with the links easy to find for both customers and prospective customers, and it was classy, if minimalist. I included setup pages for four versions of Windows, MacOS classic, MacOS X, and even a page with info for Linux users (if you've never dealt with the different distributions in the days of dialup, count yourself lucky. It was a crapshoot.).
They used it for a couple months, and then paid someone else (probably a lot more) for a horrible, ugly clusterfuck that took a long time to load (I did mention this was dialup, right?), centered everything in a tiny column in the middle based on percentage (imagine that on an 800x600 screen, old but not uncommon at the time), had little information besides marketing bullshit, and required newer browsers than many of their customers had. They didn't even include email setup instructions.
These guys ran an ISP (albeit in redneck central). They should have understood the issues. Someone running a pottery shop? No chance.
Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach either, do tech support.
Are you a fucked-up moron in real life, or do you just play one on slashdot?
I don't think those are the reasons people have stopped using Firefox. As far as I remember people started migrating en masse towars Chrome a long time ago, much earlier than the controversial UI changes and the Pocket stuff. In fact, all the controversial Firefox changes are quite recent.
Did you actually have a point, or just wanted to play a flaming douchenozzle on Slashdot?